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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

You will not find a sadder post on the internet today.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 17h

for many people of my generation and older, our parents saw vaccines as near-miracles, crushing diseases that killed or crippled many of their peers when they were kids. it boggles the mind anyone would want to undo this

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.

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Heather J Malloy @heatherjmalloy.bsky.social · 1d

Right now my town is rallying around: restaurants providing free meals, residents donating to local food pantries, etc. but the kicker is that the *vast* majority of my town voted for the ppl causing the pain. And they just cannot make that connection.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

However much you, a politically engaged person, think the average American knows about what's going on, I can promise you: it's way less than that. No matter how low your estimation. It's lower than that.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 2d

I know these incidents are several days old but I cannot stop my heart from breaking with the contrast between the happy, fun halloween decorations in the background, and what is in the foreground

thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 2d

Look at this fucking shit. In Chicago the "elite" CT unit of the USBP detained (a violent assault resulting in 6 broken ribs) a 67yo US citizen driving home from his morning run, then tear gassed a Halloween party with kids in attendance. There's no reforming this. It's unamerican and unacceptable

A big tough guy from BORTAC with a CS grenade in his hand. Pathetic.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot tell you how much I wish that this was even one of my ten greatest fears.

From the site The Cut (which I really like), a headline and subhead:
THAT'S CRINGE--A series exploring everyone's greatest fear: being embarrassed.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 8d

Those who'd sneer at outrage over the White House fancy themselves slick. Ears to the ground. They don't concern themselves with frippery when there's a war to be won. Well they don't know a goddamn thing. Symbols are powerful, and politics is a game of using them to your advantage.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 8d

F them. F them for the endless nightmare of the past 10 years: one decent thing smashed after another by this black hole of a man.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8d

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

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Heather J Malloy @heatherjmalloy.bsky.social · 8d

When I had to buy a refrigerator a few years ago, and told the shop: "no fancy colors, no wifi, no "smart features", they had to go digging around in the back room to find an old floor model--just to find a basic fridge. It was so weird.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9d

The president is establishing the principle that he can order the murder of anyone he deems a threat.
And Congress is letting it happen.

USMC Vet M-3-7/MarineBarracks, NAS Alameda 🇺🇦 @usmarinevet.bsky.social · 9d

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

What we have here, in addition to Trump's gaudy, vacuous bric-a-brac he has glued to wall in the Cabinet Room, is our monumentally incompetent SecDef telling the most unhinged president in history about an attack on another civilian small boat, this time in the Pacific.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 9d

The East Wing Obscenity

This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.

open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

The East Wing Obscenity

Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House

open.substack.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 10d

Donald Trump wants his own DOJ to pay him $230 million of taxpayer money because they tried to hold him accountable for his corruption. At what point do we start calling this exactly what it is: theft of the American people?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10d

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 11d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 11d

It's almost like Republicans can't find anyone without a Nazi/racist text history to serve, but it is a bit troubling, isn't it, that there seems to be an endless supply of them

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12d

I for one do think it's possible for America to find a president better than one who, faced with claims he is dumping shit on Americans, posts a video showing himself dumping shit on Americans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 13d

I don’t love this country because it’s perfect - it’s not.

I love it because I can see the hope and dream of what it could be, and I can see all the other people reaching and working toward that hope with me.

Everyone who comes in service of that hope makes us stronger, takes us one step closer.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 13d

Cringe as it may or may not be, I cannot help but love this country

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Heather J Malloy @heatherjmalloy.bsky.social · 13d

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13d

It's incredible that some people on here have convinced themselves that the best possible contribution to fighting fascism is to shit on everyone who dares to say that these protests are, in fact, a good thing. I can't even express in words how utterly unimpressed I am by such "savvy" grumpiness.

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Heather J Malloy @heatherjmalloy.bsky.social · 13d

#nokings Cortland, NY

No Kings Protest Cortland NY. Baby Trump balloon

No Kings Protest Cortland NY frog costume

No Kings Protest Cortland NY Purple hippo

No Kings Protest Cortland NY. The citizen's duty is to defend against tyranny.

Heather J Malloy @heatherjmalloy.bsky.social · 13d

We also had a purple hippo

A purple hippo at at No Kings protest, Cortland NY

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13d

Waking up and asking myself, “What would Cap do today?”

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14d

Trump's agents have been snatching people off the streets without due process — and over 170 US citizens have been caught in the mix. Outrageous and unacceptable. The lawlessness must end.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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